(My question stems from a reading that the lovely MangoMom gave me a while ago.)  She sensed I have gone through "many lifetimes...around 15."

From what you believe, how many lifetimes or reincarnations do you think Baby Souls, Young Souls, Old Souls, etc. would have had behind them?
How many lifetimes would 'need' to be lived to be considered a Mature or Old soul?

Of course, here, it may be true that quality is more important than quantity but just out of interest, I'd like to know your opinions.  

I personally think the focus is wrong.

I think what count most is what you do with the life you are in now....what goals one put up....how we fulfill them and so on.

By focus on how many life we need, we take away focus from what is important, which is now, and it can also be used as a "sleeping pillow" or excuse that we can't achieve thing because we need more life.

Reincarnation, together with much else, is beliefs, and not fact.

If the belief is something that benefit you in this life, then the belief is good.

If the belief is something that prevent you from living to the full in this life, then the "belief is wrong"....again in my opinion or belief

If you believe that "old soul" gives you greater benefit in this life...well then we are all "old souls", and none can prove different.....we are all descendant of the first life on earth...and we all carry all our ancestors genes

Hi Rhutobello. Thankyou for your words of wisdom.
But don't worry, I'm very grounded in the reality of my current life and will never use anything like past lives as an excuse for what I can/cannot achieve in this life.

I'm just asking this question out of mere curiosity...not to justify anything about me or my current existence.

Caryna, the really old souls started at least back when the Earth was created. Or they might go back father because they just wandered in here and got stuck There seems to be several schools of thought about that and how old one's soul is also seems to depend on any given reader. The more readers that say you are an old soul the more likely there is that you are.

Caryna, you have created a cool topic and I can't hardly wait to see how it developes I am considered an old soul and I only go back 150,000 years . Where did everybody else go ? What happened!?

love you,

sunmystic

Rhuto welcome to "psychic"! Old souls are always a pain in the tush or they would be Saints and would be a gift to everybody and they are not!

Rhuto (ji ,which you actually are!), I love what you said! It was a gift!

love,

sunmystic